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And practicing covid19 norms. Masks for Everyone Welcome back is a mask from us hand sanitizer, temperature gauges we want everyone to feel like they are in a safe place. Reporter one of roughly 1800 pg e customer set to lose power in sonoma county. Much higher napa 9200 customers. And eastern Solano County some 900 customers will be affected 80 to 90 and lake county said to be impacted the next few days because of a red flag warning. Height winds expected early friday morning expected to get the most friday morning with estimated restorable times friday night. Reporter because pg es equipment was blamed for sparking the wine country of ours in 2017 the utility began cutting power the following year to prevent similar incident as stop. Humidity forecast to drop below 20 in high wind exceeds 25 Miles Per Hour. We reported on customers who complained about using and losing food when teaching with dark. Attribute organizations is to the redwood empire for being customers can have food rep
Strong. Were talking about potentially over 50mile an hour gusts, Strong Enough to knock down tree branches especially any trees weakened by fires in the north bay the past couple of months and if those get knocked down into power lines, thats why were concerned about the power aspect. Red flag warning goes through friday morning at 11 00 in effect for north bay mountains, east bay hills, valleys and santa cruz mountains. Its the combination of the gusty winds, especially in the higher terrain, the heat and very low humidity, talking relative humidity levels in the Single Digits that has us the most concerned. Paul, thank you. The pg e update on the power shutoffs is underway right now. Lets listen in. We want to show you where we stand at this hour regarding this Public Safety power shutoff. A Severe Weather event with hot, dry conditions and high wind gusts is expected to begin this evening. Forecasted gusts are anticipated to reach about 55 Miles Per Hour. We expect these high winds
The streets of San Francisco could look like this at midday of a workweek and its had a profound effect on caltrain. Its been super empty and even sometimes when im commuting during rush hour before it was hard to get a seat. Now almost got a whole full car to myself. Reporter caltrain was one of the most efficient Transit Systems in the bay area with 70 of its expense paid for by riders fares, but that means its hurt even more when there are fewer riders. In good times were really happy not to need extra support through a sales tax, but caltrain is never unlike every other Transit System has never had a dedicated source of revenue. Reporter so measure rr would create an eighth of a cent sales tax on each dollar spent specifically to fund caltrain. Transit officials hope one day the money can be used to increase the reach and frequency of the service, but right now it will be a lifeline. In the next few years without this caltrain will have to shut down and that is animminent and real
Affected by this power shut off for a closer look at the areas that are losing power. Kron fours Justine Waltman in our newsroom tracking the latest information right now justine you can find all of the maps on our website kron 4 dot com. But lets zoom in now so you can see. Whats being put out by pg e right now here are the current outages here is the north bay and ill zoom in a little bit so you can see that. In calistoga right now there is a kurd p s p s happening at this moment, same as we move down a little bit just to the west of saint people are in the dark right now, and that also goes for people in sonoma and just west of napa these are where the Current Power outages or and this is been updated. Throughout the day today power will continue to go off. Till about 8 oclock tonight. But as we zoom down just a little bit you can see there are no current p s p s outages and any other part of the bay area but well go to the future p s p s outages and thats when things really start t